Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 October 1877 — Page 1

1 V~£ TV V^P" *"R ~, 4 ST"** V*-

Vol. 8.—No. 19.

THE MAIE

A PAPER FOR TUP. PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

Town-Talk.

WIRE-PULLING

Is a useful art, and wire-pullers are a useful class of citieens. Not all wirepulling or all wire-pullers are useful. All good tblngd are liable to abase, and this among the rest. Because mean meu go into the business of pulling wires, and pull tbem for mean ends, and in a mean way, the whole world cries out against th* awful sin of wire-pulling in general. Jones was a good man and honorable, and so was Smith. Jones wrote to Smith that he knew of a first rate place for him, and it was open. Should he pull the wires to secure it? Smith's wife said Indignantly that nhe didn't want her husband to get any place by wire-pulling. But Mrs. Smith was mistaken. All Jones meant was that he would go quietly at work and secure the place for Smith, and intended to pull the wires, or exert in a cjuiet way tho influence that would bring Smith and the place together. What better, or tnoro honorable thing con Id he do? In order to be honorable it wasn't necessary for Jones to go up and down the street bawling out his purpose. Many a mechanic gets a good job by means of wire-pulllug, and many an employer ge.8 a good mechanlo by the same zneans. Lawyers get clients, and clients lawyers, ministers got churches, and churches get ministers, doctors get patients and patients get doctors, in the samo way. Somebody sees the fitness of things, and sets about opening the oyes of other people to the same, and brings together things that lit. The world thinks these things happened to oome about. Somebody knows bettor. Somebody secrctly pullod tho wires that made them happen to eome about. The world is Indebted to wire-pullers for many of the best things that ever were done in it. But ror.mcAL

WJRK-PI I.LINO

Is awful. [sit? Not necessarily. It is bad If it is bad, and it is good if it is good. It depends upon what wires are pulled, and how, and why. The wirepulling that put suoh a man as Hayes into the l'rosidency wasn't a very bad thing. In fact, It strikesT. T. that those Ohio politicians who pulled the wires to secure the nomination of the "favorite son" are entitled to commendation and gratitudo. In a word the man who attempts to bring about a good thing politically by combining favorable influence tending in that direction, is worthy more of praise than of blame. Half the complaint which is made against wire pulling in politics comes from those who are too la*y to pull wire themselves, and a good share of the rest comes from those wbr pulled wires and failed. Smith wants to be Mayor, Councilman, Treasurer or Assessor. He tells his friend Jones. Jones suggests to others the name of Smith as a candidate. When tho caucus meet*, ballots are ready with Smith's name on. He is nominated, and all the people who lldn't go to the caucus, and all who went not knowing what they wanted, and all those who didn't manage for their friends as well as Smith's friends did for him, cry out against a candidate who gets liis nomination by wire-pull-ing. It is a good deal easier to whine and grumble than it is to work, and so a great many digulltoi and la*y people manifest their political rttd, and their seal In other directions also, by means of a vigorous whining and grumbling, and their snivels and groans are generally over the wickedness of the wire pullers. What is true lit politics is true else where. The men who have an eutd to accomplish and work for it are growled at by the men who have an end to accomplish and dont work for it, or don't know how to work it. If them were more wire pullers, audi better ones, the world would be better oft The trouble Is not iti the machinery used, but iu the manner iu which it is used* Pistol shooting is very harmless when practiced at a target, very useful when practiced on a robber, and very bad

•'^^SpssaffsjMi

*v

it about. If a bad end is the aim, it is better to keep hands off the wires. As T. an

CIVIL

the trouble was not in the fact that office holders worked for political purposes, bnt in some iutances they neglected official duty for political work, and In some it was required as payment for their offices, and in many cases the office holders, having pratronage at their command, had an undue advantage over the citizens generally. On these accounts Mr. Hayes ordered tbem to attend to their business snd keep hands off the wires. This order was a right one, but it was not issued because wire pulling was wrong, bat because, for the reasons named, these were not not the men to do that work. If he could now issue an order to compel all the best citizens to take up the work of getting up and running "machines," palling wires, and enforce it, he would do a good thing. But he cannot do it. The few who will pull wires will continue to rule in politics, in church, in business, in society generally. The "managing few" in all organizations sre the wire-pullers, and without them these organizations would die. The more the managing few can be increased in number the better for the cause—any cause. Don't be afraid of wire-palling, bat off with the kid gloves snd blister the hands at pulling yourself. Don't grumble about wire pullers, the few who manage, but become one of the few. In politics, in society, in church, in everything desirable, lay hold of the wires, as many as possible, and pall like thunder,

Husks and Nubbins.

No. 276. 3-

MONEY.

A minister whose salary is 97,000 a year, and who can have all the comforts and luxuries of life with a three months trip to Europe each summer thrown in, declared from his pulpit last Sunday that the principal difference between a rich man and a poor one was that the former was privileged to give while the latter could notl He went on to .illustrate this view of the matter by pointing out that the air and the sunlight were free to overy one, rich or poor, and that the poor man coald eat and sleep as well as bis rich neighbor, etc. This is simply absurd and, coming from such a source, ridiculous. Every one knows it is not true snd why attempt to make it appear so The idea that the chief happiness of the rich man oonsists in giving! If the word withholding were put in place of it the statement would be muob nearer the truth.

It is folly to deny that money is a great good—the supreme good, in fact, so far as this world is concerned. What is money It is not trash, it is not a stuff base and filthy and oentemptible. Quite the revene. It is nothing else than accumulated labor All that is noble and manly and admirable in labor is comprehended in money. It is use and beauty and comfort and happiness sll melted together in a crucible and oast into shining coins. One man can paint a noble picture, another san write a fine book, still another can compose a great piece of music but the man of wealth can do more than any of them for he can fill his honse with music and books and pictures. Money base? That depends entirely on the use msde of it. A thief may labor till the sweat pours off of him endeavoring to break open your safe, aud his labor is mean and ignoble. So and for the same reason is the money of a miser filthy and desptsable in both cases it is labor applied to an unworthy purpose. He who lives in his money merely for its own sake, who watches his pile increase, not for the sake of the happiness it will buy him but merely to see how large a pile be can scrape together before he dies—such man's money Is indeed but filthy rags, unfit for the touch of an honest hand. Bnt he who, with a christian heart and enlightened mind, regards his wealth as the treasured earnings of thousands of wearled hands and tired feet that have trodden the wine-press of toll—to him money Is in some sense sacred. It will never narrow his mind and shrink up his heart. It will stimulate him rather to a humane and christian use of it. It will not only bring joy and blessing to his own life but comfort and htppiness to the lives of others.

Money Is not therefore baie of itself but by reason of debasing usage, and the saddest thing about it Is that fortunes so often Call into the hands of those who do not deserve them, who ma£e such a sorry and pitiful use of their means and who are brutalised instead of beautified by their wealth. Too often it is the Judge Pyncheoas of society, coarse, beastly audi besotted, who roll in luxury while the Clifbrds, deligate and imaginative, fall of noble aspirations and generous impulses, are doomed to tread the thorny road of parity and want. Heaven's gifts are not well distributed. Bat money Is man Hi, not heaven's gif.t and it Is governed by the

when practiced by a robber. Ditto wire- laws which men have enacted. Whether pulling. Ifagood endls to be acv m-' f:t-olav- wise er not hit tiessto pllahed, pull every wire that will imngj inquire. the world began some

have been rich and some poor and so, most likely, it will be to the end of time.

There is one kind of riohes however whioh sll msy possess, which do not take wings and fly away, nor sink in the breaking of a bank. A mind enriched by the cultivation of literature, of science, of art, la better than the money of the Rsthochilds. To enjoy the beauties of Plato, or Milton, or Sbakapeare, it matters not whether a man lives in a palace or a cabin. They will oome in, these great masters, and sup with him sll the same and while he shares their compsnlonship he is oblivious to the trsppings of pretentions weslth. A qniet conscience is snother source of true riches which every man may possess. He who can look into his heart each day and behold there only pure and honest purposes is a rich msn indeed, and be cannot be robbed of bis riches. A genuine love of Nature in her many and varied forms, as exhibited in earth and sky, is sourco of infinite enjoyment. Tboreaa said that he used to go out on Walden pond and hold the world down in the clear depths beuesth his boat by tbe nape of tbe neok, until it floated off like a drowned dog." At such times Thoreau did not feel the need of money! Tbe cultivation of pure, untnercenary friendships is prolific of inexhsustible pleasure. It is within the reach and power of every one to do. A sincere interest in tbe general good ia a source of wealth. A selfish man is narrow and bigoted. His vision is bounded by the horizon of self. He cares nothing for the common good. He knows nothing of the plessure of contemplating himself as a unit in tbe great sum of life, of feeling that his srm, wesk though it be, is helping to pash forward tbe cause of civilizstion and progress. Far otherwise is it with him who takes an active interest in the public welfare. He is well rewarded for bis pains.

These sre some of the sources of true wealth which are open to rich and poor alike, from which tbe want of money cannot shut a man out.

SCANDAL.

Say what you may, unhappily it is the fault of erring, humanity to like a morsel of scandal occasionally, and such liking does not pertain wholly to petticoats. Very few of us possess that exquisite moral delicacy which ever prompts its possessor to consider as a crime tbe utterance of careless words which may injure neighbor. There are, however, those who understand this thoroughly who find no difficulty, through long habit, in keeping their tongues properly bridled who will not willfully listen to malignant gossip, and who never, when it has been forced upon tbem, repeat it. Such people, comparatively few though they be, can do a great deal toward mitigating that propensity to circulate scandalous stories which has for a long time been the pest of small towns and cities. There is no social evil which can not be mitigated in a measure, even though it can not be extirpated. Every well-meaning woman should consider how much that is good she can accomplish without taking a vast amount of trouble, either by listening to ill nstured gossip with an air of indifference, or of impatience, or, which is better still, by indignantly refusing to listen to it at all. A conscientious woman will consider tbst a great portion of the stories dissdvantageons to personal character, which are afloat ia every community, are really none of her business that they in no way concern her happiness, prosperity or success. Slander should be consideeed one oi the most disreputable vices in this vicions world. But on the other band, It is a sin into which tolerably well meaning talkers sometimes fall, partly because they must talk about something, or somebody, and partly because there is an exaltation of ourselves in the depreciation of others. In many cases it is the result of idleness sometimes of jealoasy, envy, irritation at others' success where we have failed, and often of habit. Tbe warfare against tbe detestable practice must be a personal conflict, and must become general, before it is eliminated. Only let every one comprehend bow shameful and mischievous detraction is, avoiding it in his or her own chat, refusing to listen to it in others, and tbe evil will soon perish for want of patronage.

NOTHING hinders theconstmt agreement of people who live together bat mere vanity—a secret insisting upon what they think dignity or merit, and an inner expectation of such an overmeasure of deference and regard ss answers to their own extravagant false acale, and which nobody can pay, because none but themselves can tell to what pitch it amounts to. Thousands of homes would be happy to-morrow If this advice wars foils wed, and the offenders could havs the ooarage to apply It to tbemae

A SAD death occurred on "Thursday morning in the family of E. M. Merring, bookkeeper at Thompson's mill and residing on South Fourth. His UtUegirl, five yean of age, swallowed a tack, immediately commenced vomiting blood and soon ailer died.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1877. Price Five Cents

People and Things.

The hard times dont make rascals they only bring them to tbe surface. Says a contemporary, "Be strong for yourself." This remark was originally made in regard to boarding hoaae batter. 1

The New York Herald says Joaquin Miller "loves to bold a woman's hand." Strange he didn't hold on to his wife's a little longer.

A Canadian priest, who sued a yoang man for his wedding fee, fixing it st |15, lost the suit on the ground thst the youth received in exchange "no appreciable value."

Once again the conntiy is shaken to its very oenterl This time it is owing to the fact that Mr. 'niton bss called on his own wife and that a reconciliation is about to be effected.

New Yurk Mail The Southern men are easily distinguished from the Northerners, in tbe House of Representatives. The Southerners sll respond to the roll call by saying "Y-u-r-r."

Anotkerlazy man has been foand. He spells it this way: "Mrsippy." Tbe other three perpetrated tbe following: "11wortb," "lOaC," "Ydfc." for Leavenworth, Tennessee and Wyandotte, u* 4 "Down here, in summer time, we take life essy,"ssys a Texss paper and then, as if to confirm ths statement, there appears in the next column an account of "Three men killed at a camp meeting."

Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler has been settled in Brooklyn seventeen yearsjand has preached 4,900 sermons, and made 3,385 church members, besides writing several thoussnd articles for denominational papers. In his experience it takes about a sermon and a half to make a church member.1 „****.U*

Mr. and Mrs. Bardwell,an aged couple of Whately, Mass., divided tbeir money into equsl parts before stsrting on a journey, eaoh taking one. Tbeir idea was that at least half of tbe sum would be saved from thieves but the world is wickeder than they thought. Both tbeir pockets were picked.

Neal Dow was called into the Portland police station Saturday night to confront a tipsy book sgent who insisted that they drank brandy and water together on a Sound boat recently. When the irate apostle of temperance got there, the fellow explained that be drank tbe brandy and Dow tbe water.

This is what tbe Chicago Journal can't understand: "Drive out with a horse and he will switch his tsil 150 times a rod to force away troublesome flies but let him once get bis tail over a line and the old quadruped will wander en for miles without thinking of the flies which wallow unmolested in his living gore. What a horse loves above all things is to do tbe driving himself."

It is related of a young man engaged temporarily to act as private secretary to a certain railroad official in Pittsburgh, that be made a special effort to be early the first morning, reaching the office at seven o'olock. To his surprise he found his chief there, sbout to light bis second oigar, having finished his mail and read tbe morning papers. 'Well, young man,' said Mr. P——, 'I'd like to know where you have been spending the forenoon "I'll be a good man and give up cards and smoking and chewing and drinking, and give yon a diamond engagement ring," said the lover. "Oh Edward you—you are so good,' and she leaned her frizzes on bis shoulder. And there they sst until the soft hours of night, that dusky nurse of the world, hsd folded them from sight, pondering, plsnniag, thinking, she of tbe dismond ring, and be of how on earth be was to get it.

Can any one tell what is the significance of two surviving buttons on the dress cost, set in the small of a man's back, with no button holes In sight? They can not, in tbe evolution theory, be accidental they are survivals of some use. Were they psrtof a military or hunting costume, used to button on a sword strap Was tbe skirt of the coat once sttacbed by them to the body Did they once form a row around the waist? How does it happen that two are left, when one would just ss well keep in memory the rudimentary trait? —[Hartford Courant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson addressed, twenty years ago, a literary society, during Commencement, at Middlebury, Vermont, and when he ended tho President called upon a clergyman to conclude tbe service with prayer. Then arose a Massachusetts minister, who stepped into the pulpit Mr. Emerson had just left and ottered a remarkable prayer, of which this was one sentence: "We beseech thee, O Lord, to deliver as from ever bearing any more sach tran scendsntal nonsense as we have jost listened to from this sacred debt" Alter tbe benediction Mr. JEmerfon asksd his next neighbor tbe name of the offl dating clergyman, and when flatteringly answered, with gentle simplicity remarked, He seemed very conscientious, plain-spoken man,-" and went on his peaceful way.

Feminitems.

Women get overlXfflcuTUes by crying ovsr them. Occssionally a shawl sheds diglnity on a fleshy lady. "Rag carpet" is the fashion In ladies' dress goods this year.A

Oliver Wendell Holmes says that a hysterical woman is a vampire. When one woman hates another she always speaks of her as "that person." "On her own hearth-stone woman is fortified. Tbere.lshe may make)herself beard," says Mrs. Stanton.

A Kentucky editor speaks of a young woman "with just tendency enough to freckle to look most bewitching."

A mother and a daughter eloped with their loveis from Leesburg, Ohio, leaving tbeir hnsband and father^dlsconsolate.

Fire sisters, who are nans in a Canadian convent, have turned into the convent treasury their combined fortunes amounting to 9600,000.

A committe of Boston ladies, after extended observation and thorough investigation, report that as a rnle.men have better noses than women.

It is a final test of brotherly affection for a girl to lend her brother's silk nm« brclla to her beaa and not get jawed clean out of her gaiters. 'A Boston mother" says baby shows are contrary to good breeding.. We supposed "good breeding" was exactly what the show designed to encourage.

Patti has earned fc,500,000 with her voice, but when she was a child her fa* tber pawned his family's clothes and trinkets to get bread for them to eat.

When a girl begins to tske an interest in tbe arrangement of a young man's necktie it is an infallible sign of something more serious than sisterly regard.

A woman may not be able to sharpen a pencil or hold an umbrells, but the Philadelphia Bulletin affirms that she can pack more articles into a trunk than a man oan into a one-horse wagon.*^

Rev. Anna Oliver.is settled as pastor of a church at Dansville,'. N. Y. She says" the Methodist Episcopal church is as sure to open its doors to women preachers as the years are sure to roll.

In Waterford, Pennsylvania, a man sold a woman to his brother for sixteen bushels of wheat, and the enlightened citizens of Waterford tsrred and featherered the woman. Why didn't they tar and feather the man

A granger at Amherst, Massachusetts, offered a young lady a bushel of potatoes if she would wheel them through tbe streets at noon, when tbe college students were all out. She accepted tbe challenge, wheeled the potatoes home like a little man, and told the granger she was ready for another bushel.

In France there are two rows of chairs around tbe sides of tbe dancing-room, the daughters sitting on tbe fiont, and their respective mothers behind them, on tbe bsck row. The daughter goes forth to tbe saltation with the maternal approval, and at Its conclusion she is Immediately conducted back to the place befefre the mother.

Young ladles may be interested in knowing that tbe newspaper critics have settled the question, that It Is not proper to say Mr. Jones was married to Miss Smith, nor Mr. Jones and Miss Smith were married but it should be, Miss Smith was married to Mr. Jones, because tbe woman is married to the man, loses her nsme, takes his, and her identity is entirely merged in him.

A letter from New York to the Springfield Republican says that more women dry goods merchants are buying goods st tbe great jobbing houses this fall than was ever tbe esse before. Women bought of one firm 910,650 worth of goods in one day. "Their purchases wero not large, but very discreet and discriminating. They knew exactly what they wanted, and paid cash or its equivalent."

A woman in male attire was admitted to the male ward in a San Francisco hospital to be treated for injuries caused by a fall, but on the discovery of her sex tbe assistants hurried her into tbe proper apartment. She registered in tbe office as Albert Sinclair of New Orleans, and said that she had dressed as a man for ten years, finding it more convenient and advantageous than woman's dress for making her living. She chewed to baeco.

Iu Detroit, says tbe Free Press, there are four English servant girls, sisters. Tbe eldest came to this country saven yean ago, and tho others followed in succession. All saved tbeir money, put it into bank, and wore no flashy finery. This summer they bought a piece of land 40 by190 feet tod built a cottage on it. Each vied with tbe other in adorning tbe cottage and grounds, tbe property of this sisterly stock company. The eldest sister hss moved into tbe new home and started a laundry, anli already work occupying her*? intheweek.* Tbe other slste^ju In tbeir situations. Each of tbe a bank account.

WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT THE BOOKS. [Seymour Times.]

per is on file there and we oome

FOR SINGLE TEERS.

Fall in—Love with some amiable andl§# virtuous young womsn on the first op4| young portunity yon bi

ave.

Attention—]

8.

We would like to know her the accounts are kept in tbe New Jerusalem. We are feeding a good many tramps, and giving out medicines to the poor at a rate that keeps us poor. We havent time to keep the acoount, and if they alnt keeping It np above there'll bet difficulty in ssttling when we get there. just as likely as not. Ths Cord will csrtainly see that we get credit for feed-,, ing and doctoring up nis poor and helpless and suffering creatures. This isr^W

-v

if.'

I NAT

however, that there is a balance in oar favor. There moat be something coming tons if our credits sre properly en-^'",w, tered. Bat this is a thing we can not be at all sure of, snd we're getting a little uneasy. Settling time is drawing on^a!: and we shall go into ooart without an itemised acoouot, or even tbe scratch of pen. And jast as like ss not they keep on file aoopy of the Seymour Times, wherein is recorded sll oar bsd deeds and none of oar good ones. If this pa-^% in with,

V*-

no offset to offer, we may foot an short— then {—well, this is a thing we nave gotes'tto look to right off. WEDDED, DIVORCED, AND TWICE™

WEDDED AGAIN. ll'r

[Prom the Louisville hvenlng News.] A gentleman relates to a News report-ya er, a singular matrimonial ease, ranning^l^* through twenty-five years in the psst-, "{. history of Brunerstown, Jefferson Connty. A gentleman in that town, married a lady of the ssme neighborhood. sbout twenty-five years ago. After living to-^„ getberfouror five years they separated on acoount of incompatibility of temper,, and the hnsband reoeived a divorce.

S"M

Two years sfter the divorce,both parties _,|- again married. Tbe husbsnd, however, ss in ths esse of ths first marriage, did not get on W' "4* pleasantly with the second wife, and two ears later be applied for a divorce, and was granted. Two or three years latere he married again, and after a few yearsiS was again divorced.

The first wife of tbe much divorced man lived with her second husband? very happily until five or six years ago,^£L when he sickened and died. Not long. _' afterward she was remarried to her first*, husband. & DRILL VOL UN-

Pay to ber, assiduously^

and resoectfully. Right Face—Popping the question like®,.^0 a man, and she'll sccept you,

Quick Msreh—TO her psrents snd ask^j their consent. Right Turn—With ber to the ohurch!. snd go through the service of holy mst-r rimony.

Halt—And, reflect seriously for a fow^^: moments then determine to devote* af% yourself entirely to your wife.

Right about Face—From tbe haunts that you have frequented when single,^ .fv-t and prefer your owu home.

Anvance Arms—To your young wife when out walking together, and don't. let her walk three or four yards behind you.

Break Off-Bllllard and staying out st night,.. have a happy home,

CA UOBT IN THE ACT.. [From the Cincinnati Breakfast Table.] She stood on tbe corner smiling sweet*ly as bs passed over tbe orosslng. Ha aidn't know her, but she was vsry pretty, snd supposing she mast be a lady to whom he bad at some time bsd a passing introduction be raised his bst with a bow of courtesy and grace. In return she raised ber lip with a look of scornful contempt, and looking back be ssw to his cbsgrin tbst ber smile bsd been manufactured expressly for lsdy friend slew steps behind bim, and when they kisssd and giggled and peered after him in ridicule be felt sbout as comfortable as a man does wbo fills bis mouth with salt mistaken for sugar.

HOW NOTES MUST BE WRITTEN,'i [N. Y. correspondence of Boston JournaL] The upper ten have abolished note paper. Elegant cards are substituted. The cards are very elegant pasteboard, about four inches by three edges gilt, and the name of tbe bouse handsomely engraved on the top. The cards, writ-* ten bsck and front, are placed into an exactly fitting envelope and adorned with a monogram in colors on the back*

THE POPE'S DISEASE. [Paris Letter.] e' The Pope recently said to &friend,who is a newspaper editor: 'Newspapers are killing me daily. I wish yon would tell tbem that I have of a truth tbe most fatal of all diseases, eighty-four years and fonr months, but thst tbe lamp is not yet oat.' TR ULYPROVIDENTIAL WEATH­

ER.

[Wheeling Intelligencer.]

Here we have had the fall season so Providentially arranged, that for once, not a farmer has been able to find a grievance against the weather.

At ths organisation of tbe Senate of Washington Territory, four women were to official positions, as follows: nljghtoc,. Engrossing Clerk ers, Enrolling Clerk Fanny

A:#

ptaylngi lit. if yot

betting

yod wish UKj

A MOTHER'S PRESCIENCE. & [Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 6.1 "Here, take the pencil," were the dy-^'. ing words of Mr. Wm. A. Shorter, Ute%* fe editor of the Rome Courier. Eli Short- Sf ,* er, bis father, relates thst on the night of'' vf" the destb of his son in Rome, bis wlfe. f*' st home in Eufanls, Ala., swoke hlmj ssking tbe time of night, ssying, "Wll^%i lie is dead. I felt that Willie is dead.'r He looked and found it 1:15 by his time, Our young friend died at 1:10 by the* time at Rome. Mrs. Shorter knew of her son's illness, but nevertheless, it ia very strange that the impression should have been vivid enough just at the moment of his departure to cause her to arouse her husband inordei to get the time of the nigbt.

sit a. s?i

-fef

1

8*

7

$v*

Sit

-*l'

•iu~

$

Doorkeeper Miss Hathaway,

P.: